Pokémon Sun & Moon |OT| Ultra Beasts and where to find them
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Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
You know, this is suddenly bothering me.
So how come the enemy trainers don't do the Z dance when they use the Z move? I mean you can't say they didn't animate them, since we are almost always introduced with an NPC doing the dance. They have trainer models there already ruining the scale yet somehow they don't make use of them?! And it's another weird inconsistency, since Kukui even does the dance.
Damnit gamefreak where's my consistency within the same gen!
So how come the enemy trainers don't do the Z dance when they use the Z move? I mean you can't say they didn't animate them, since we are almost always introduced with an NPC doing the dance. They have trainer models there already ruining the scale yet somehow they don't make use of them?! And it's another weird inconsistency, since Kukui even does the dance.
Damnit gamefreak where's my consistency within the same gen!
OniBarubary
Banned
Gotta grab a Grubbin.
Elaugaufein
Member
I really don't see why anyone would want additional Ratatta/ Pidgey / Caterpie / Weedle clones honestly, Fletchling worked out because it was different , as did Staraptor do a lesser extent, but I couldn't even remember the names of the Pidove line without looking them up. Unless there's some actual reason to make new mons or they can fill some actual worthwhile niche , the pros don't outweigh the cons.
Kanhir
Member
I think the game does a crappy job of selling the new ones to players, because it just offers better alternatives on the early routes.
Why would I keep a Pikipek when Wingull has twice the type coverage?
Why keep a Yungoos when Alolan Rattata has Dark on top right from the start?
Where are the cool new Ghost/Psychic types for me to choose over Gastly and Slowpoke? How about a Fighting type to rival Makuhita?
Why take on Oricorio, a Pokemon with cool variable typing who can't learn any moves for those types except for a single one at level 40?
I get that Pikipek and Yungoos have higher base Attack than their rivals, but in the early game, your average player is probably going to look at type coverage, not stats, and Normal(/Flying) just doesn't cut it when all these other options are available in the first couple of areas.
The Gen 7s end up just looking like generic expys compared to the shiny versatility and usefulness offered by the previous-gen mons (who are mostly gen 1 anyway).
Elaugaufein
Member
You probably don't want to hear this, but apart from for Sylveon, the Hearts in Pokemon Amie / Refresh don't affect evolution at all, pokemon that involve by "Happiness" refer to the Gen 2 mechanic, which increases by walking with a pokemon , levelling them up, giving them massages , etc .
Because those enhanced type coverages come with downsides: Alolan Ratatta gets wrecked by Fighting moves, Wingull gets wrecked by electric moves. Oricorio doesn't learn specific type moves because you can change typing on the fly and since it's not a traditional "related" set of types there's no necessarily replacement moves available like there is for say Rotom (which I'll admit is a let down, I'd have preferred it if they'd done that, even if it required making some extra moves)
What? Need to grab one ASAP.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Yeah. The game isn't hard because it's challenging. The game is "hard" because it's more like an exercise of frustration in some ways.
I AM LOOKING AT YOU SOS MECHANIC.
I miss horde battles.
the place is pretty useless unless you could surf tho, and iirc you'd be pointed there anyway
I AM LOOKING AT YOU SOS MECHANIC.
I miss horde battles.
the place is pretty useless unless you could surf tho, and iirc you'd be pointed there anyway
Same, though I doubt that mine will arrive tomorrow and will probably arrive on Thursday because the universe likes to mess with me. ¬_¬;
Why introduce Battle Royale on the second island, when you clearly can't properly play in it solo until the postgame? All of the Pokemon in the Normal Rank are Lv. 50 and fully evolved...I just don't get you GameFreak. Surely they could have made some little cup teams, or at the very least set everything to level 50 for the fight?
Elaugaufein
Member
I don't think setting stuff to Level 50 would help much at that point, you're not going to have access to the level 50 moves, much ability to get good IVs / EVs / Natures or appropriate abilities, so you're going to be much weaker than your opponents even if you get boosted to 50.
Elaugaufein
Member
I think you might be in the wrong thread ? Mainline Pokemon games have never had more than 1 slot (Nintendo don't want people to "cheat" with trades).
Sorry if it's a silly question but how are you getting the Johto starters?
Yeah, I was there with my munchlax lv 23 and the other trainer had a lv 50 mega tyranitar lol.
I think the woman at the incense store can check friendship.
SliceSabre
Banned
Starwolf_UK
Member
While I didn't order my copy from Amazon UK my copy of Sun has been dispatched. Which seems odd as when I placed the order a couple of days ago I was being told early-mid December.
Apparently you can now increase happiness by teaching Pokemon TMs. So you can have 2 moves that you keep teaching and overwriting. Probably no quicker then using berries or other items though.
Not heard anything. Get those bad boys onto wonder trade.
Adding to what has been said.
Apparently you can now increase happiness by teaching Pokemon TMs. So you can have 2 moves that you keep teaching and overwriting. Probably no quicker then using berries or other items though.
Because you can play it with your frineds. It serves as both an introduction to a new battle type and sets a goal for you other than just clearing the trials.
By scanning QR codes. scanning 10 lets you do an Island scan which lets you get rare Pokemon. Doing an island scan on the first island on a Monday lets you catch Totodile.
Admiral Woofington
Member
It is now my mission to get a female jangmo-o and call her Whoopie Goldberg. (or the closest i can to it)
oh man haha I did too
I guess it does help with status stuff but damn, those hearts were really convincing!
Master Milk
Member
anyone know what these weather triggered sos battles are on serebii?
Elaugaufein
Member
Certain routes sometimes have "overworld" weather that carries into battle, when that weather is present the SOS table is different. I believe it's the only way to get some Pokemon.
MrCookiepants
Member
Grinding for BP in this is horrible. Absolutely horrible.
It's killing me.
I really hope GF goes against their history and patches this (by that time I'll probably have an EV trained team and it won't matter).
It's killing me.
I really hope GF goes against their history and patches this (by that time I'll probably have an EV trained team and it won't matter).
WHat do you mean? Any changes to the battle facility?
When they connect Pokemon Bank, I expect them to update the Global Link as well. That may provide an alternative way to get BP. Right now the Global Link really does nothing there must be some incentive down the line.
balladofwindfishes
Member
The third version of Sun/Moon is going to be great.
There's a fantastic base game here, bogged down by performance issues, strange movepools, poor Pokemon distribution and other minor, but ultimately annoying design choices
Basically a bunch of things a third version can fix with no problems.
Master Milk
Member
exactly like i thought then, cool, thanks
PadWarrior
Member
I can't register people for my plaza or earn any more coins. Not a fan of this feature. Never seems to work.
Where are these QR codes?
FaintDeftone
Junior Member
Anybody know for sure if Sun/Moon is indeed enhanced for the New 3DS? I'm not experiencing any of the frame rate issues I saw mentioned in reviews and I'm wondering if the New 3DS runs the game better. I can't find any evidence of this though.
Inferno313
Banned
Yeah, it is. No extra content or functionality, but the performance is much better on the N3DS. I've been playing Moon on an N3DSXL, while my fiancé has been playing Sun on my old OG 3DSXL, and her load times aren't crazy, but they're noticeably longer than mine.
The baffling thing about this is that in Black and White 2 Game Freak reduced the amount of battle points required by half they also made it easier to pay move tutors with shards that can easily be found and grind for.
But in gen 6 and seemly in this gen 7 they went back to the original archaic method.
Starwolf_UK
Member
MrCookiepants
Member
It starts out at the equivalent of battle maison super singles.
Which means I'm trying to fight the Stockpile Walreins and Confuse Ray Umbreons with their proper EV spreads using my fucking in game team.
The Battle Royals are even worse. I'm up against Mega Lucarios and the like with my little Komala and his minus defense nature.
Woo.
PadWarrior
Member
Is there a guide for festival plaza because I can't register people as VIP or earn any more coins.
Master Milk
Member
cheers, i didn't think to look past the first list of pokemon when i first saw this page lol
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
Pokemon is easy tho.
Nope, you will get your one save file and like it.
Exactly, not even Colosseum or XD allow multiple save files or allowed the data to be copied and that was a GameCube title.
I can't wait to see what "Pokémon Stars" will be like and then I am gonna laugh so hard at Zygarde and X and Y.
I miss the days where you could just catch the first one you see and move on. Loved the first gen for this.
burn this down
Banned
Trying to figure out what my team is gonna be. Any suggestions for the last team member, preferably early to mid-game? I'm probably going to replace Lunalla with Drifblim or Dhelmise (although I hear that's kind of late game), but I hear you get some exclusive dialouge if you take on the Champion with your version legendary.
Elaugaufein
Member
The awful way that Zygarde's extra moves and formes were shoved into this game suggests to me that they'd planned on a Pokemon Z and then shelved it for some reason.
For the most part you still can, just for in game purposes (it's not like Gen 1 didn't have its equivalent of IVs / EVs ). You can breed to fix pretty much everything on most pokemon (apart from Hidden Ability access).
I HATE THE FRIENDSHIP MECHANIC AHHHHHHHHHHHHH
balladofwindfishes
Member
...why does Zygarde start at level 30 and not level 40. At that point in the game, most of your Pokemon should be in the high 30s/low 40s.
He's going to need to catch up now.
...and I still can't think of a nickname.
Xanadu maybe? Lief? Fenrir is too cliche? Thor? Loki?
Right now it's named Zegard and that's a dumb name. Not worthy of a viking snake dragon dog monster.
He's going to need to catch up now.
...and I still can't think of a nickname.
Xanadu maybe? Lief? Fenrir is too cliche? Thor? Loki?
Right now it's named Zegard and that's a dumb name. Not worthy of a viking snake dragon dog monster.